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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles,
theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional
societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar
helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Features of Google Scholar

Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place

Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications

Locate the complete document through your library or on the web

Keep up with recent developments in any area of research

Check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile

How are documents ranked?

Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full
text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as
how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.

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